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Defense system   /dɪfˈɛns sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Defense system

noun
1.
The weaponry available for the defense of a region.  Synonym: defence system.



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"Defense system" Quotes from Famous Books



... determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security. Moreover, I have directed that steps be taken to program our military assistance to these allies on a longer range basis. This is necessary for a sounder collective defense system. ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... Press dispatches from day to day told what these men did; how the enemy was slowly pushed back from his strongest and most vital positions, through one defense system after another, using his finest selected troops, which had been withdrawn in many instances from other portions of the line, in an effort to hold an enemy which he derisively said last spring could not be brought to Europe, and if so would not fight, ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood



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